Built by job seekers, for job seekers.

Why we built FirstPost

If you've spent any time job-hunting on the major aggregators in the last few years, you know the experience has gotten worse, not better. We did. And eventually we got tired of it.

Some of the patterns that pushed us over the edge:

• Sponsored junk. Half the search results were paid placements - roles that didn't match the search, irrelevant industries, completely wrong locations. The genuinely-relevant matches got buried under whatever someone with budget had paid to promote that day.
• Ghost jobs. Roles that had been filled weeks earlier - or were never real to begin with - kept appearing in results. Some were re-posted by recruiters trying to build pipelines for future hiring rounds. Others were aspirational listings posted to gauge market interest. None of them were actually open.
• Repostings. The same role from the same company, listed three different ways under three different titles, often by different recruitment agencies. Apply to one and you'd hear nothing - because the recruiter you'd applied through wasn't the one with the actual relationship.
• Data sold to third parties. The clincher. Whenever one of us applied to a role on the major boards, we'd start receiving scam phone calls and recruitment-spam emails to the exact phone number and email we'd used in that application. Within hours. To addresses we used nowhere else. The math was unambiguous.

Job seekers are stressed, vulnerable, and time-poor. The industry that's supposed to help them was instead farming them for ad inventory and contact-data resale. That gap is what FirstPost exists to close.

How we're different

We took a deliberately narrow approach. FirstPost monitors company career pages directly - the same source that aggregators eventually crawl - and delivers a personalised daily digest of new openings filtered to your CV, your target companies, and your exact preferences.

• No sponsored listings. Companies don't pay us to appear higher in your feed. The order is determined by relevance to you, full stop.
• Real jobs from real career pages. Every role we surface comes directly from a company's own careers page - not from a recruiter's pipeline-building re-post, an aspirational wishlist, or a never-real listing. We cache results for a short retention window to handle brief outages, so on rare occasions a recently-removed role may still appear in your feed for a few days, but you won't see jobs that never existed.
• No data selling. Your email, CV, and preferences are used solely to run your alert feed. We don't sell, share, or rent your data to third parties. Our privacy policy spells it out, and we mean it.
• Direct from the source. We monitor each company's careers page directly on a daily schedule, so new roles typically reach your feed the same day they're posted - not days later, after the aggregator pipeline has indexed and re-served them.
• Personalised, not curated. The feed is filtered to your CV's keywords, your target industries and seniority, your work-arrangement preferences, and your location. Whatever doesn't match doesn't show up.

If that sounds simple - it is. The hard part isn't conceptual; it's the engineering work to monitor tens of thousands of company career pages, parse hundreds of slightly-different applicant tracking systems, and consolidate the feed into a clean digest. That's what FirstPost has been building since April 2026.

Who we are

FirstPost was founded in April 2026 by Omar A. and Ben D., who first met as students at Plymouth University. The company is registered and operated in the UK; both founders had first-hand experience of the problems above - which is how the project started in the first place.

Both founders work across business and product; Omar handles all of the engineering, and Ben leads marketing. It's a two-person team by design - small enough to ship quickly, respond to user feedback personally, and make decisions without committee. If you email hello@firstpost.io, one of us reads it.

Omar A. - Engineering

Omar's path into tech wasn't direct. He read Financial Economics as an undergraduate before completing a Masters in Finance at Cardiff University, then worked briefly in management consultancy in London before pivoting into the tech industry. He's spent the years since working his way up - Helpdesk Analyst, then Systems Administrator, and most recently Cloud Engineer - and now handles the entire engineering side of FirstPost: the scrapers, the API, the data pipeline, the dashboard, and the cloud infrastructure that ties it together. You can find him on LinkedIn.

Ben D. - Marketing

Ben leads marketing and the business side at FirstPost. He prefers to keep his professional profile private but is reachable via the shared hello@firstpost.io address.

What we believe

A few principles that drive how FirstPost is built:

• Job seekers shouldn't be the product. The mainstream aggregator model treats applicants as inventory. We treat them as customers - our incentives align with finding you a real job, not extracting attention.
• Speed matters more than scale. A single relevant role today beats fifty stale matches a week from now. We optimise for time-to-application, not breadth-of-listings.
• Transparency over tricks. No dark patterns, no dishonest pricing, no fake-scarcity countdown timers, no bait-and-switch trial flows. The pricing on our pricing page is the pricing you pay.
• Quiet, useful, professional. No five-emails-a-day "engagement" sequences. One daily digest, plus the occasional service email. That's it.

Get in touch

For anything - product feedback, partnership questions, journalism enquiries, support, or just to say hello - email us at hello@firstpost.io or use the contact form. Pro subscribers get a 24-hour response window; we respond to everyone within 72 hours.

FirstPost is operated as a sole trader registered in the United Kingdom. For data-protection enquiries, see our Privacy Policy or email privacy@firstpost.io.

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